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Ronaldo hiding
secret about
Manchester
United transfer
• Cristiano Ronaldo
REAL MADRID star
Cristiano Ronaldo is
reportedly hiding a secret
as talk of a move to
Manchester United
rumbles on.
Ronaldo remains vital to Real
Madrid and demonstrated his class
with a sublime brace in their 3-0
Champions League win over
Juventus on Tuesday night.
The Portugal international,
however, remains heavily linked with
a move to Manchester United.
Spanish media say the 33-year-old
is interested in moving back to
United, the club he turned his back
on back in the summer of 2009.
It comes at a time where Real are
refusing to bow to his contract
demands, with Ronaldo seeking pay
parity with Lionel Messi.
Yet the Manchester Evening
News (MEN) says Ronaldo is hiding
a secret.
And that is because he is actually
using United to get the deal he feels
he deserves.
Talk of a move back to the club
is nothing new.
In the immediate aftermath of Sir
Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013,
United were convinced Ronaldo
would return as David Moyes’s
welcome present.
And in 2015, Ronaldo was again
tipped to move back, having grown
unhappy at Real’s decision to axe
Carlo Ancelotti.
However, the MEN says Ronaldo
is again using United to try and
broker a new Madrid contract.
The good news for the Red
Devils is, though, they are not going
to fall for his tricks again.
United have already ruled out
signing another forward following
Alexis Sanchez’s arrival.
And to prove they did not want
Ronaldo, Jose Mourinho said in
January: “To put some water on the
fire, I would say Cristiano is the kind
of player that every manager wants.
“Every club wants, but only one
manager can have and only one club
can have - Zidane and Real Madrid.
That's my feeling.” Express.co.uk
Barcelona charged by UEFA
• Over yellow balloons on pitch
BARCELONA HAVE been
charged with breaching
UEFA disciplinary
regulations after supporters
floated yellow balloons onto
the Camp Nou pitch during
Wednesday's Champions
League victory over Roma.
The La Liga leaders won
the first leg of the
quarterfinal 4-1 but the
match was briefly held up as
a result of an apparent
political protest in the first
half.
Yellow balloons --
potentially representing
support for the Catalan
politicians who remain in
prison following October's
unofficial independence
referendum -- were released
following a wave of pro-
Catalan chants in the 17th
minute.
Governing body UEFA
made no reference to
political factors when
charging Barcelona on
Friday, citing only a breach
of Article 16(2), which
pertains to the "throwing of
objects.''
A statement said the case
would be dealt with by the
UEFA control, ethics and
disciplinary body on May 31.
Soccer net
Real Madrid edge Barcelona
in La Liga TV audience figures
REAL MADRID have just
edged Barcelona as the most
popular club to watch for
Spanish TV viewers so far in
2017-18, according to
research published by La
Liga.
Audience figures collected
by Kantar Media were
published on La Liga’s
website, showing the total
and average number of
viewers who watched games
on TV at home in the first
30 weeks of the current
campaign.
Despite an indifferent
campaign which sees
Zinedine Zidane's side
currently third in the table,
they achieved a total local
TV audience so far of 37.7
million viewers -- an average
of 1.256m per fixture.
A total of 36.5m Spanish
TV spectators -- or 1.217m
per game -- have watched
Ernesto Valverde's team lead
the table from the start, and
remain unbeaten to hold a
nine-point lead over second
placed Atletico Madrid with
just eight games remaining
Diego Simeone's Atletico
are third on a list in which
La Liga have ranked the
teams in order of their
audience for games on
Spanish pay-TV, with an
average of 715,170 per
game, followed by Valencia
(550k), Sevilla (487k) and
Athletic Bilbao (435k).
One La Liga game each
week goes out on free-to-air,
usually involving smaller
clubs, with Real Betis having
the greatest audience in these
matches -- an average of
957k viewers. So far this
season none of the top six
most popular sides have
been chosen for the free-toair
game, which is usually
screened either Friday or
Monday evening.
Suburban Madrid side
Leganes, playing just their
second ever season in the
top flight, come bottom of
the pay TV list with an
average of 287k viewers.
However their one game
which was shown free to air
-- at Betis in mid-January --
was watched by over one
million people on TV.
soccer net
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